Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-12-10
-rE GREAT PANAMA CANAL


EIIlions Of Toliars Thrown Away
AID otlre-g NhIions LavishIy
Squauderrd.
gro,tile.w cary md seas C Strrveller.no
more enchanting scene can be. viewed.
from The sea than The city Of Colon,
-I.il il surrgpuaipg> o. tail palm tgees
waving "a the breeze, writes acOrrcsp p3n
dent to TIe N.ic Orleans Times D.ua-
cg1t. At seems like.aG Glippss of AIRY
land; but Let the LuurisL once laIs!,.anl
ne SsOon discncA.4 Cd The ar seems
20 be full of peslilence. and i Cologne
is. s d 10. have ohad seventy distinct
st nk,' lam sure Colon has Al Tie least
three times Is many. In fact, it is 4
wonder that the inhab tants nave not
all OF them tarned-up noses. The front
street has a planked lover sidewalA
uni : W Iich the swater stands and pu-
.trilies after 4 rainfall. The back streets
Of the city are mud holes, and % green
scum is the r principal decoration.
The majority Of the houses are built
upon sticks with a led Of streaming
mud beneath TO add to their sanitary
advantages. Generally tue Panama
Railroad Company run TWO funeral
trans daily out to She cemetery at
Monkey Hill, and carry lots Of dead
heads
The funernal ceremonies are conducted
on most ee0nom cad plan. A poor
man dies in the street "a box is
brought and he is tamblsd into it and
whirled away to the place of Sepuiure.
On arrival the body is pitched into a
hole. When there are four or five
bodies in this hole it is closed up. The
boxes are, however. always brought
back for further use. There is no hos
ptai or aid for the sick and dest tute.
For the sick man there no aid. tor the
dead no religious services. 1t is said
that all are not dead who are thrown
into these pits. This is mmaterial. of
course. as they soon .de after the red
mud is shOvelled in upon them. There
are hospitals. of course. in Colon, both
Amer can and French, the latter under
the auspices of the canal company,
whose head IS NJ. dc Lesseps. | have
personally given the French hospital Il
trial OF nearly 4 ycac and cannot recon-
mend t As a tirst-CiaSS hotel. Poor cOf-
fee and tough beef are not, IN my estim-
alton, most nOuTi,h NJ food for an in
valid. These hospitals are under the
control of my distinguished friend. VI.
de Le~>eps, but he never boards at them
when he chances to be in Colon. The
Sisters of Char ty,nODle wonderland
staff Of some. educated doctors of
French extraction 'ih.e..the magement
of affairs. The principal medicines
used are compound cathartic pills and
quinine, var.ed occas Onaily by fly
blister Or nm enema. This treatments
au emincntiy successful one, as. - evi-
dence 10y the collins going outevery day.
I'm the hospitals. as.in every thing else
connected with the. De LesSeps fraud,
the French have preference. except in
graveyard privileges. They get ch cken.
DO. when al American or EnglisAman
given tough. beef-the meat cut out
! between the horns of bullocks whose
ancestry tqses back. beyond the .reign'Of
William the COuqueror. who himself IS
| Old-enQugh 70 be his own grandfather.
| cannot atOrl space to hention all of
the Count de, -lsesesps hospital attrae-
toms for. qk. Americaps., lie pays
,Ss e. Rais ia Il T es e 4 ISa, Inner,
Is 01iyis5 eertsoT Sr TofM American. .
FTAathe y<tfivin s.t.<lf fines 10 reriaee
tslsilled Americas abs.r bysFre nch n elp.
, Is; an. dpsn secretp 4ie' has .prumised
ssssral sasssto h sSes hs eansiopened at
! yq1ogS d;sles, geNE!lass has Inc saceom-
| [piished2 so" Yes, .jpst that much and
mo more. = He has. lMih q lot Of, fancy,
! icottaSes IA inncrscls con csrirs2aiong
! she line .lsetween GSion and Panarha.
! lie has bought so much macTiiners and
never used it. diats at ieast 81. 0oa. 200
! worth OF unused material Les along the
Panama Railroaa rnsting and deca inc.